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No. 2 Manitoba Northern. This wheat must be sound 

 and reasonably clean, of good milling qualities and fit 

 for -warehousing, weighing not less than 58 pounds to 

 the bushel, and must be composed of at least 45 per cent, 

 of Hard Eed Fife or Marquis. 



No. S Manitoha Northern. Any wheat not good enough 

 to be graded l^o. 2 Manitoba Northern is graded No. 3 

 Manitoba Northern at the discretion of the Inspector.^^ 



The commercial grades are grades which on account 

 of climatic or other conditions cannot be included in the 

 grades established by the Grain Act. The grain of one 

 year often differs so much from that of another that the 

 lower or commercial grades require to be defined annually. 

 The commercial grades are set by the Western Grain 

 Standards Board and at present are three in number: 

 No. 4 Wheat, No. 5 Wheat, and No. 6 Wheat. 



The term no grade is applied to all good grain that has 

 an excessive amount of moisture in that it is tough, damp, 

 or wet, or grain which is otherwise out of condition and 

 unfit for warehousing. 



The term condemned grain is applied to all grain that 

 is in a heating condition or that is badly bin-burnt of 

 whatever grade it might otherwise be. 



The term rejected grain is applied to all grain that is 

 unsound, musty, dirty, smutty or sprouted, or that con- 

 tains a large admixture of other kinds of grain, weeds, 

 or wild oats, or that from any other cause is unfit to be 

 classed under any of the recognized grades. 



We thus see that there are seven chief grades of west- 

 ern hard red spring wheat, which, with the word Mani- 

 toha left out as is the custom among farmers and grain 

 dealers, are as follows : 



27 There Is also the grade 'No. 1 Hard White Fife, but very little 

 of this wheat is grown in the West. 



